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Oh, the whippoorwill roosts on the telephone pole
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And the Georgia sun goes down
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Well, it's been a long, long time but I'm glad that I'm
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Goin' back to my home town
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Goin' down to the Greyhound station
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Gonna buy me a one-way fare
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And if the good Lord's willin' and the creeks don't rise
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By tomorrow, ah, I'm gonna be there
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Don't it make you want to go home?
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Don't it make you want to go home?
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All God's children get weary when they roam
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Don't it make you want to go home?
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There's a six-lane highway down by the creek
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Where I went skinny-dippin' as a child
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And a drive-in show where the meadows used to grow
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And the strawberries used to grow wild
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There's a drag strip down by the riverside
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Where my grandma's cow used to graze
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Now the grass don't grow and the river don't flow
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Like it did in my childhood days
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(Don't it make you wanna go home?)
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(Don't it make you wanna go home?)
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All God's children get weary when they roam
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(Don't it make you) wanna, wanna go home?
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Background singers sing "It's different, it's different , it's different, so
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different now " while Brook scats with variations on "Don't it make you wanna go home?"
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and then "But all God's children get weary when they roam, and don't it make you wanna go
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home?"
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"Don't it make you wanna to go home don't it make you
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wanna go home And now-ah, don't it make you wanna go home, don't it make you
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wanna go home?"
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All of God's children get weary when they roam
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(Don't it make you) SPOKEN: "And" (want to go home?)
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SPOKEN: I'm goin' home
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whistling plus a series of (Don't it make you want to go home?) to end
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Dont It Make You Want To Go Home
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| Brook Benton |
